Off the southern coast of Japan, the Philippine Sea Plate lies underneath the Japanese mainland. The locked tectonic plates threaten to unleash a catastrophic megathrust earthquake, likely within the ...

A magnitude-5.7 quake off Oregon led a cluster of tremors that renewed attention on one of North America's most dangerous ...

A University of Alabama doctoral student used machine learning to find rare, deep earthquakes beneath Antarctica that defy ...

The Nankai Trough just off southern Japan poses a severe seismic threat, with locked plates accumulating enormous stress. A ...

From 1811 to 1812, quakes in the central U.S. rang church bells in Boston and caused the Mississippi to flow backward.

Welcome to your seismic update from across the state for the week of May 27, brought to you by the Alaska Earthquake Center, where we monitor ground shaking 24-7. Over the past week, we recorded about ...

Ancient rocks on the Greek island of Crete reveal a 130-million-year tectonic journey, tracing deep subduction, and slow ...

Earth was mostly devoid of oxygen for much of its 4.5 billion year lifetime. That is, until certain processes started to ...

Methana volcano looked dead for more than 100,000 years, yet magma kept building below ground. By dating tiny crystals, ...

That would have enabled more of this organic carbon—and carbonate accumulating in shallow water around Columbia—to be ...

Scientists discovered how Earth recycles continents deep underground, shaping the unusual rocks found in ancient mountain ...

At subduction zones, one tectonic plate dives beneath another, dragging rocks tens of kilometers into Earth’s interior where they are transformed by extreme pressures and temperatures. Some of these ...